Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to me. At www.stampsofarmenia.com I have a few fundamental principles that I follow:

I don’t ask you for personal information unless I truly need it.

I don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, or protect myrights.

I don’t store personal information on the servers unless required for the on-going operation of the site.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, www.stampsofarmenia.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. www.stampsofarmenia.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how www.stampsofarmenia.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, www.stampsofarmenia.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

www.stampsofarmenia.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on the blog. www.stampsofarmenia.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to www.stampsofarmenia.com’s websites choose to interact with www.stampsofarmenia.com in ways that require www.stampsofarmenia.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that www.stampsofarmenia.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, I ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive IsItWP updates via email, I collect their emails. In each case, www.stampsofarmenia.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with www.stampsofarmenia.com. www.stampsofarmenia.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

www.stampsofarmenia.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, www.stampsofarmenia.com may monitor the most popular pages or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. www.stampsofarmenia.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, www.stampsofarmenia.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

www.stampsofarmenia.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on www.stampsofarmenia.com’s behalf or to provide services available at www.stampsofarmenia.com’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using www.stampsofarmenia.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. www.stampsofarmenia.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, www.stampsofarmenia.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when www.stampsofarmenia.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of www.stampsofarmenia.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the www.stampsofarmenia.com website and have supplied your email address, www.stampsofarmenia.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with www.stampsofarmenia.com. I primarily use the blog itself to communicate this type of information, so I expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. www.stampsofarmenia.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. www.stampsofarmenia.com uses cookies to help www.stampsofarmenia.com identify and track visitors, their usage of www.stampsofarmenia.com website, and their website access preferences. www.stampsofarmenia.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using www.stampsofarmenia.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of www.stampsofarmenia.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If www.stampsofarmenia.com, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that www.stampsofarmenia.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of www.stampsofarmenia.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of my websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by www.stampsofarmenia.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, www.stampsofarmenia.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in www.stampsofarmenia.com’s sole discretion. www.stampsofarmenia.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.